OT Thierry: wifi for developing countries (was Re: My opinion)

[Thierry Andriamirado]

Le 9 septembre 2016 02:32:15 UTC+03:00, JMZ <florentior at gmail.com> a écrit :
>Off topic question for Thierry:
>
>Is there 3G or better in Madagascar cities?  Would it be possible to
>set 
>up 3G towers in the rural areas, which would connect to wifi hot spots 
>in the center of villages?  PCI wireless cards are cheap.  This would

3G, 4G Lite et caetera in most cities. But very rare in villages in rural areas. Even our main Internet Providers can not (yet) install 3G towers in order to serve most villages. 

>I remember a segment on BBC World Service about portable wifi hot spots
>
>for central Africa.  The inventors were able to get a few km radius
>with 
>the devices.

Interesting!
Now, Madagascar is too wide and almost covered by mountains ^^

Thierry


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